Thursday
April 21, 2005
'Runway
Fog'
Front Page Photo by Chris Wilhelm
National: Bush
keeps focus on Social Security reform By BILL STRAUB - Despite
such problems as the troubled nomination of John Bolton to be
U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and the rise of gas prices,
President Bush continues to concentrate on convincing lawmakers
to adopt his proposed overhaul of Social Security. - More...
Thursday - April 21, 2005
National: White
House sticking with Bolton By BILL STRAUB - The White House
is remaining steadfastly behind the nomination of John Bolton
to serve as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and blaming
the delay in his confirmation on unfounded allegations circulated
by Democrats. - More...
Thursday - April 21, 2005
National: Moussaoui
agrees to plead guilty By GREG GORDON - Self-proclaimed al
Qaeda member Zacarias Moussaoui agreed in a closed court session
Wednesday to plead guilty to capital conspiracy charges, and
a federal judge found him mentally competent to do so. - More...
Thursday - April 21, 2005
National: Buying
a home may get tougher By ANDREW LEPAGE - Fannie Mae and
Freddie Mac, the nation's two biggest mortgage purchasers, are
facing proposed regulations that some fear could make it harder
for many Americans to buy their first homes. - More...
Thursday - April 21, 2005
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Grounded fishing vessel
Karen Jean
Official U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer Jeff Kinnaman,
Air Station Sitka
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Southeast AK - Fishing
vessel Karen Jean grounds in Southeast Alaska - The Coast
Guard Air Station Sitka responded to the grounded fishing vessel
Karen Jean Monday. Two other Good Samaritan vessels and crews
also responded and proceeded to the scene.
The Karen Jean began its journey
in Wrangell, transiting to Ketchikan when the grounding occurred.
The four persons on board did not sustain any injuries. The vessel
did not take on water, and the operator did not observe any significant
damage to his vessel. - More...
Thursday - April 21, 2005
Alaska: Hunter
kills celebrated black wolf in Alaska By DOUG O'HARRA - A
famous black male wolf from Denali National Park and Preserve's
most viewed pack was legally killed by a Pennsylvania hunter
this weekend outside park boundaries near Cantwell, Alaska.
The kill added emotional fuel
to one of the state's most fiery and long-running wildlife controversies.
The alpha from the Toklat or
East Fork pack had been behaving erratically and wandering mostly
alone ever since his mate, the pack's breeding alpha female,
was killed in February by a trapper just outside park boundaries,
according to longtime wolf biologist Gordon Haber. - More...
Thursday - April 21, 2005
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Accident site 60 miles
NW of Ketchikan - Coast Guard crew conducts high hoist to lift
the injured logger from the side of the mountain...
Official U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer Jed Johnson,
Air Station Sitka
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South East Alaska: Coast
Guard airlifts injured logger - Coast Guard Air Station Sitka
rescuers responded to a logging accident Monday near Kogish Mountain,
about 60 miles northwest of Ketchikan, Alaska. Gary Hayes, a
28 year old male, suffered serious injuries sustained from a
log that crushed the left side of his body. - More...
Thursday - April 21, 2005
Columns - Commentary
Dale McFeatters: Good
news on the fat front - In one of those neck-snapping reversals
of conventional wisdom, it turns out that being a little overweight
is good for you.
We kid you not. The source
for this is a new study by the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention and the National Cancer Institute.
They found that overweight
people in the United States had less risk of premature death
than people of normal weight - in fact, 86,094 fewer deaths,
equivalent to the population of a small city whose citizens err
on the chubby side. - More...
Thursday - April 21, 2005
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Ben Grabow: Pop-up
mania - It's the most noticed and least effective advertisement
out there.
Most people remember their
first experience with the Internet, or possibly even their first
email. But virtually no one remembers their first pop-up ad.
And that is just one small indication of the pop-up's uselessness
as an advertising medium. - More...
Thursday - April 21, 2005
 Clifford
May: In
war of ideas, America should not unilaterally disarm - You
can't fight terrorism without fighting terrorists. You have to
eliminate both those who load cars with explosives and those
who tell them where to go and whom to kill. Most people grasp
this concept.
Neither can you fight terrorism
without fighting the ideas that inspire young men (and women)
to choose to end their lives in spectacular acts of mass murder.
This concept baffles some people. - More...
Thursday - April 21, 2005
Mike Harden: At
this school, the administrators need educating - Imagine
this scenario:
You are peacefully mowing the
back yard when a distraught young woman stumbles out of a nearby
tree line. She is dazed and disheveled. It is clear that she
has been attacked.
Do you call 911?
Or do you call the neighborhood
civic association president to assess the potential collateral
damage from getting police and emergency officials involved?
It could affect the neighborhood's image, might even drive down
real-estate values. - More...
Thursday - April 21, 2005
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June Allen Column
 Alaskan
Chris Leding: 1886-1975; A Norwegian adventurer - By June
Allen - Today's Ketchikan phone book includes a fair share of
Scandinavian surnames. There are, however, relatively few Norse
names among the records of the town's earliest settlers. Most
of Ketchikan's Norwegian population originated later, during
the early 1920s when the halibut fleet, its skippers, crewmen
and families moved north from the Seattle area. An exception
was the late Chris Leding, who wasn't yet a fisherman when
he settled down in Ketchikan the mid-1920s and who discovered
commercial fishing much later in life. - More...
Thursday - April 07, 2005
 A
Personal Tribute to Tom Coyne on St. Patrick's Day
It's
Iditarod Race Year 33! a ghost story of the southern route
Ketchikan's
'Rotary Wheel' Still Turning; Hardworking club celebrates a century
Sitka's
Pioneer Home Statue; Whose face is cast in bronze?
L.
Ron Hubbard's Alaska Adventure; His long winter in Ketchikan
ACS
Bids for KPU Telecom: ACS a longtime presence
Betty
King the Dog Lady; Ketchikan's one-woman humane society
Ketchikan,
Alaska - Let There Be Light! -- Citizens Light & Power and
then KPU
The
State Capitol and Its Marble and keeping the capital in Juneau
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